Ooops, Clearly $7+1+2\neq 9$ then! I apologize for the mistake... ...in this case we simply observe that $3/3$ and $3/246$ implies that $3/y$ for any solution $y$. So all the solutions are of the form $(x_0,3y_0)$ where $(x_0,y_0)$ is a solution of $\frac{246}{3}x +217y =\frac{3}{3}$. The strategy of the comment above applies to this equation. PS @Tomas, thanks for pointing it out!
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Giovanni De GaetanoJul 1 '13 at 14:43

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Using the Euclid-Wallis Algorithm, we get
$$
\begin{array}{r}
&&1&7&2&14\\\hline
1&0&1&-7&15&-217\\
0&1&-1&8&-17&246\\
246&217&29&14&1&0
\end{array}
$$
That is $15\cdot246-17\cdot217=1$ is a particular solution. Multiplying by $3$ and applying the homogenous solution gives the general solution:
$$
(45-217k)246+(-51+246k)217=3
$$

We can see that x and y cannot consecutively positive or negative. So x and y should have alternate signs else it would not be an integer. Also, the slope of line is negative, that means that the line must have touched the 2nd and 4th quadrant, so your answers also must lie there. And if you plot the graph(just for verification), you can verify the above. So all your answers lie in the 2nd and 4th quadrant.

Now according to me there are very less solutions for the above, so you may do the above using a graphical calculator, or may think that for what x, $\frac{3-246x}{217}$ is an integer or for what x, $3-246x$ is divisible by 217.